Top 25 : Best Kpop (grp) songs of the year

So the end year charts are out, spotify wrap is out, and this is my top 25 BEST KPOP songs this year. (group version)

Plot twist , Atheart

Obsessed, ARTMS

Shape of love , NMIXX

Reality hurts, NMIXX

Angel 48, aespa

One more time , ADP

Burning up , Meovv

r u ok , ifeye

Famous , ADP

Free , Rumi & Jinu

Count on me , aespa

Heaven , I&S

Blue moon , H2H

bamsopoong , Illit

Deja vue , Rescene

Echo , ablume

Blue valentine , NMIXX

Golden , HuntriX

Jump , BP

Tilt , I&S

Chain , Idle

Hips lips kiss, KIOF

Dirty work , aespa

Loverboy , ifeye

BTG , KiiiKiiii

No particular order overall...

+ some solo songs I cannot not mention:

Zen / Seoul city (Jennie), Praying (Seulgi), Your love (Jisoo), Chill (Lisa)

Playlist:

Plot twist might be my favorite grp song of the year... it's a real standout! And for the solos it's Seoul city or Praying .

What do you think? What are YOUR favorite songs of 2025?

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Group only or doesn't matter ?

i guess groups more but you can also mention soloist songs, just make it a separate batch?

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my fav song would probably be Sunkiss from Wendy

that's a GREAT choice

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Here's my top 10 kpop idol group songs of 2025:

1. ifeye - Nerdy

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The best group to debut this year imo!

2. Rescene - Deja Vu

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Makes me feel so nostalgic

3. Illit - Not Cute Anymore

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13 days old, but fm this song is a bop

4. Allday Project - One More Time

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Old school big bang vibes on top of a modern d'n'b beat. Love it so much.

5. TripleS - Cameo Love

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I keep flip-flopping between this and the other tracks on MSNZ (it was such a good EP). But right now it's this one.

6. CORTIS - FASHION

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So... this is gonna mess up my hipster image on these forums, but I lowkey think Cortis are awesome. The only boyband I find interesting. Martin is my boy! This was the best stage on MAMA 2025.

7. Hip-Pop Princess - Hoodie Girls

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So much of the last few months has been me watching this show, I had to include 1 song from it. This is the one I go back to the most often.

8. Aespa - Dirty Work

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Still don't get why people didn't like this song. It's so good! Peak Aespa. Better than Whiplash. There I said it.

9. ADHD - Young Posse

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Young Posse at their best - taking influence from Opium and the Korean underground, and being goofballs at the same time. I love how unpolished both this song and music video is.

10. H1-Key - Summer Was You

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Summer was h1-key. Summer was this song.

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well i absolutely cannot stand cortis and do not give one fck about illit except the song bamsopoong which was a real GEM, but i really love most of your list here!

specially dirty work, well whiplash is still way superior in my opinion, but dirty work is also sooooooooo good! aespa actually tore it up with that song, a top tier one in their discography, so lowkey badass fr, all the hate towards the song was sooo ridiculous !

also loved all the ifeye, rescene releases . and of course ADP did extremely well even tho i liked wicked much less than the other two songs.

btw did you listen to Plot Twist by Atheart? i think it's kpop grp soty for me .

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You only say this because both groups are affiliated with HYBE.

absofckinglutely

everything they do sucks! i just don't like their groups. like for real. specially their ggs. (i never cared about bgs anyway ) . they don't have good voices (very important for me), they don't have star factor and i don't even find them that pretty. or pretty in an interesting or outstanding way.

like... mid af groups.

they do happend to miraculously get one or two good songs there and there tho, and i can recognize that when i hear it. like my world and bamsopoong are A tier, GOOD kpop songs. so were blue flame and swan song. but it's more of a fluke than a norm and it doesn't changes that i think don't like their groups at all.

and most importantly, i am absolutely REVOLTED by hybe's total lack of ETHICS and the way they treat other groups. including njs of course! they only deserve boycott in my opinion!

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Yes I love Bamsopoong too, I made a thread earlier this year calling it the best girl group b-side of 2025:

Thread

Is this the best gg b-side of 2025?

Honestly the whole of the Bomb EP is amazing and has just grown and grown on me with more listens. It’s the final track, Bamsopoong that has really captured my attention these last few days.

youtu.be/imnphAoMVL0?si=3o1QTEvH9Bm1_Fyk

open.spotify.com/track/3INETdT…si=GlDJtaKBRRmzZSIqD5p2Jw

Best b-side by a gg in 2025, do you agree?

Also, how would you describe its genre? It has a soft rock instrumentation and a dreamy pop sound.

Bottles

Jun 25th 2025

I listened to Plot Twist a fair bit, I do like it, just not enough to make my list!

you were really into something cause despite everything, that song is just BEAUTIFUL. too beautiful to totally ignore.( it's also easier to do so since it's not the tt .)

idk personally, i can't even listen to illit anymore. it feels like betraying nj. and it just revolts me to do so.

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I say support the illit girls if you like their music, they have been through enough, and they were caught in the crossfire exactly like NewJeans and every other group involved in that mess. I hope everything between them and NJs can be water under the bridge in time

there is no way i can support illit or any hybe groupe, it would be like supporting bango! and id feel complient and complicit in the way he treated nj/og ador .